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THE LONDON SOCIETY OF COMPOSITORS AND MEDICAL CHARITIES.
TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT THROUGH ANIMAL BODIES.
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inasmuch as we, the Nationalists, could not return our applying pressure, he completely relieved the patient of her Catholic and Nationalist candidate for the medical trouble. It has been observed as a singular fact that officership of the Enniskillen workhouse, we withdrew observations such as these recorded in 1868 were allowed to and supported Dr. --, the farmers’ candidate, drop out of sight for so long a period; but the fact is we Dr. against Dr. -, the candidate of the landlords, gentry, were not then so ready for the development as we are at and their agents and hangers-on, on an understanding and an this time, and photography had not advanced, as it has now, that he would support and use so as to come to our assistance. arrangement with Dr. his influence with the dispensary committee in recommending to them Dr. -, and to have him returned as medical THE LONDON SOCIETY OF COMPOSITORS AND This officer for the Barrowstown Dispensary district." MEDICAL CHARITIES. remarkable manifesto carries its own condemnation with it, WE have received the report of the London Society of and will not have the effect of casting oil upon troubled for the year 1895. The society commenced to Compositors waters. subscribe to medical charities in 1858 with a donation of 14 guineas, and has continued to do so ever since, the FERGUSSON’S PUPILS. amount subscribed increasing with every year until in 1895 IT is a little remarkable that at the present moment at it reached ;&255 3s., the membership being 10,280 in round five of the large general hospitals in London pupils of the numbers a of 6d. per head. We have no subscription late Sir William Fergusson are the senior surgeons. They information as to the other trade societies, but we are William Rose at King’s College Hospital, Christopher doubt whether they do as well as the compositors. Heath at University College Hospital, George Lawson at The amount voted for the current The year is £ 262 10s. Middlesex Hospital, Charles Macnamara at Westminster total amount subscribed in the seventeen 1879-at years Hospital, and Boyce Barrow at the Royal Free Hospital. which date the subscriptions to medical charities were entered distinct from trade charities-to 1896 is R3350 2s., If all the trade societies an average of nearly £200 a year. TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT THROUGH ANIMAL would show an equal amount of organised benevolence BODIES. financing of hospitals would not, we fancy, be such hard IT appears that the idea of transmitting light through work as is at present the case. animal bodies is neither one of to-day nor one of foreign development, for in 1868 our own countryman, Dr. (now PURE BEER. Sir) Benjamin W. Richardson, read a paper on the subBEER has been the subject of legislation from a very early ject at a meeting of the British Association for the was adulterated Advancement of Science at Norwich. Sir Benjamin time, and, contrary to what many believe, in the old days as much as it is now, though in quite a W. Richardson did not proceed quite in the same way different way. "And you, maister brewer, that groweth to as that which is adopted now, but he endeavoured to be worth £40,000 by selling of soden water, what subtility look directly through the body, in parts. His idea was have you in making your beer to spare the malt, and put in that the body might be considered as translucent, the more of the hop to make your drink, be barley ever so and that different organs could be observed by the direct cheap, not a whit the stronger, and yet never sell a whit the them. of round them or He transmission light through You can, when you have taken more measure for money. made researches with various kinds of light-the electric, the harte of the malt away, then clap on store of all the limelight, the ordinary light, gaslight, oxyhydrogen, water (’tis cheap enough) and mash out a turning of small magnesium, and other lights, and obtained the best results, beer like rennish wine; in your conscience how many At Norwich in as he thought, with the magnesium light. draw barrels So was it you out of a quart of malt ?" 1868 he fitted. up a magnesium light with the necessary written in a curious tract published in 1592. to According shafts and slots, and rendered visible various parts, sendthose who are supporting by petition Mr. Cuthbert Quilter’s the of fish and the also bodies other through ing rays to introduce a Pure Beer Bill on the 25th inst. A hand exhibited in the light showed endeavours animal organisms. the question, How many barrels draw you out of a quarter of a good transmission of light, and in a child the malt?would still be an awkward one for some "maister bones, under a somewhat subdued light, could be seen brewers" to answer. Not, however, because malt is used in the hand and wrist. A fracture in the bone could, in but not at all. Sweet wort may consist of the sparingly, fact, be easily made out, or growth from bone. In from obtained certain starches by the hydrolising a thin young subject the movement and outline of the sugars action of weak acid. The weak saccharine solution boiling heart could be seen in the chest, but the light he bittered with anythen be and fermented may subsequently then used was not sufficiently powerful to render the but hops. The therefore, is not a product, thing resulting demonstration all that he could desire. He held that it malt liquor or such a wholesome bitter as if it contained would be possible to see through some diseased structures hops. In short, it is not beer ; no liquor should be deso as to ascertain whether within a cavity there was fluid scribed as such that is not brewed exclusively from barley or a solid body, and he concluded by stating that his object We trust that the petitioners who are now had been rather to mark the origin of a new progressive step malt and hops. that such a definition may shortly become humbly praying than to explain a perfect instrument or record an extended law will have their granted. petition series of successful results. In the course of his address he -
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also said that the method promised fruits of the greatest interest and value. It might be used for a variety of physiological purposes, and in animals whose tissues were thin the condition of the circulation and respiration could be carefully studied under the action of various agents. A little later Sir Benjamin W. Richardson showed the practical use of transmitted lights. In one case he detected by it in the fingers of a woman a little plexus of. blood-vessels from which drops of blood had exuded. He marked the spot, and afterwards, by dividing the plexus, cauterising, and
THE
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ITS WAYS AND MEANS
CHILDREN :
IT is a strange fact that public charities which are ever in search of revenue do sometimes, in a sense, become embarrassed by their own funds. We may mention one recent instance among others. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, thanks to the exertions of its supporters, has during the past year been enriched by the proceeds of a series of bazaars. Notwithstanding the
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inasmuch as we, the Nationalists, could not return our applying pressure, he completely relieved the patient of her Catholic and Nationalist candidate for the medical trouble. It has been observed as a singular fact that officership of the Enniskillen workhouse, we withdrew observations such as these recorded in 1868 were allowed to and supported Dr. --, the farmers’ candidate, drop out of sight for so long a period; but the fact is we Dr. against Dr. -, the candidate of the landlords, gentry, were not then so ready for the development as we are at and their agents and hangers-on, on an understanding and an this time, and photography had not advanced, as it has now, that he would support and use so as to come to our assistance. arrangement with Dr. his influence with the dispensary committee in recommending to them Dr. -, and to have him returned as medical THE LONDON SOCIETY OF COMPOSITORS AND This officer for the Barrowstown Dispensary district." MEDICAL CHARITIES. remarkable manifesto carries its own condemnation with it, WE have received the report of the London Society of and will not have the effect of casting oil upon troubled for the year 1895. The society commenced to Compositors waters. subscribe to medical charities in 1858 with a donation of 14 guineas, and has continued to do so ever since, the FERGUSSON’S PUPILS. amount subscribed increasing with every year until in 1895 IT is a little remarkable that at the present moment at it reached ;&255 3s., the membership being 10,280 in round five of the large general hospitals in London pupils of the numbers a of 6d. per head. We have no subscription late Sir William Fergusson are the senior surgeons. They information as to the other trade societies, but we are William Rose at King’s College Hospital, Christopher doubt whether they do as well as the compositors. Heath at University College Hospital, George Lawson at The amount voted for the current The year is £ 262 10s. Middlesex Hospital, Charles Macnamara at Westminster total amount subscribed in the seventeen 1879-at years Hospital, and Boyce Barrow at the Royal Free Hospital. which date the subscriptions to medical charities were entered distinct from trade charities-to 1896 is R3350 2s., If all the trade societies an average of nearly £200 a year. TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT THROUGH ANIMAL would show an equal amount of organised benevolence BODIES. financing of hospitals would not, we fancy, be such hard IT appears that the idea of transmitting light through work as is at present the case. animal bodies is neither one of to-day nor one of foreign development, for in 1868 our own countryman, Dr. (now PURE BEER. Sir) Benjamin W. Richardson, read a paper on the subBEER has been the subject of legislation from a very early ject at a meeting of the British Association for the was adulterated Advancement of Science at Norwich. Sir Benjamin time, and, contrary to what many believe, in the old days as much as it is now, though in quite a W. Richardson did not proceed quite in the same way different way. "And you, maister brewer, that groweth to as that which is adopted now, but he endeavoured to be worth £40,000 by selling of soden water, what subtility look directly through the body, in parts. His idea was have you in making your beer to spare the malt, and put in that the body might be considered as translucent, the more of the hop to make your drink, be barley ever so and that different organs could be observed by the direct cheap, not a whit the stronger, and yet never sell a whit the them. of round them or He transmission light through You can, when you have taken more measure for money. made researches with various kinds of light-the electric, the harte of the malt away, then clap on store of all the limelight, the ordinary light, gaslight, oxyhydrogen, water (’tis cheap enough) and mash out a turning of small magnesium, and other lights, and obtained the best results, beer like rennish wine; in your conscience how many At Norwich in as he thought, with the magnesium light. draw barrels So was it you out of a quart of malt ?" 1868 he fitted. up a magnesium light with the necessary written in a curious tract published in 1592. to According shafts and slots, and rendered visible various parts, sendthose who are supporting by petition Mr. Cuthbert Quilter’s the of fish and the also bodies other through ing rays to introduce a Pure Beer Bill on the 25th inst. A hand exhibited in the light showed endeavours animal organisms. the question, How many barrels draw you out of a quarter of a good transmission of light, and in a child the malt?would still be an awkward one for some "maister bones, under a somewhat subdued light, could be seen brewers" to answer. Not, however, because malt is used in the hand and wrist. A fracture in the bone could, in but not at all. Sweet wort may consist of the sparingly, fact, be easily made out, or growth from bone. In from obtained certain starches by the hydrolising a thin young subject the movement and outline of the sugars action of weak acid. The weak saccharine solution boiling heart could be seen in the chest, but the light he bittered with anythen be and fermented may subsequently then used was not sufficiently powerful to render the but hops. The therefore, is not a product, thing resulting demonstration all that he could desire. He held that it malt liquor or such a wholesome bitter as if it contained would be possible to see through some diseased structures hops. In short, it is not beer ; no liquor should be deso as to ascertain whether within a cavity there was fluid scribed as such that is not brewed exclusively from barley or a solid body, and he concluded by stating that his object We trust that the petitioners who are now had been rather to mark the origin of a new progressive step malt and hops. that such a definition may shortly become humbly praying than to explain a perfect instrument or record an extended law will have their granted. petition series of successful results. In the course of his address he -
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also said that the method promised fruits of the greatest interest and value. It might be used for a variety of physiological purposes, and in animals whose tissues were thin the condition of the circulation and respiration could be carefully studied under the action of various agents. A little later Sir Benjamin W. Richardson showed the practical use of transmitted lights. In one case he detected by it in the fingers of a woman a little plexus of. blood-vessels from which drops of blood had exuded. He marked the spot, and afterwards, by dividing the plexus, cauterising, and
THE
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ITS WAYS AND MEANS
CHILDREN :
IT is a strange fact that public charities which are ever in search of revenue do sometimes, in a sense, become embarrassed by their own funds. We may mention one recent instance among others. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, thanks to the exertions of its supporters, has during the past year been enriched by the proceeds of a series of bazaars. Notwithstanding the